Biden administration plans to end COVID-19 emergency declarations May 11
CBSN
The White House is planning to end COVID-19 emergency declarations on May 11, the most public signal yet that the Biden administration now believes the worst of the pandemic is over, the White House announced Monday.
The announcemnt was in a formal statement of opposition to two GOP bills set to be voted on in the House this week that would immediately end the national emergency and public health emergency first enacted during the Trump administration that quickly opened up federal money and resources to cities and states responding to the pandemic. The Democratic-led Senate is unlikely to vote on the legislation.
May 11 will mark more than three years of the U.S. being under an emergency related to the pandemic. Former President Donald Trump declared a national emergency over COVID-19 on March 13, 2020, retroactive to March 1, 2020.
